User talk:R.marrisen78

Melbourne

Yes, the dictionary sources do say that. But those are referring only to narrow UK/Australian pronunciations. Wikipedia's IPA standard is a broad IPA transcription that is meant to "accommodate General American (GenAm), Received Pronunciation (RP), Canadian English, South African, Australian, and New Zealand pronunciations" (the six most widely used forms of English around the whole world); see Help:IPA for English, which advises editors to "note that several of these symbols are used in ways that are specific to Wikipedia and differ from those used by dictionaries." It also notes that "If the words illustrating two symbols sound the same to you [for instance, the historically separate phonemes /ər/ and /ə/, which have merged in Australia, UK, etc...] you can ignore the difference between those symbols." You can feel free to add back in an additional, local Australian pronunciation (which is something I myself did a few months ago, but has since been removed). Wolfdog (talk) 23:48, 13 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for clarifying that Wolfdog, especially the treatment of differentiation in the symbols. I was working off the assumption that the UK/Australian dictionary sources would suffice with Melbourne being an Australian related article. R.marrisen78 (talk) 01:32, 14 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]